Frances Burney on 1 August 1779 states that Samuel Johnson, Hester Thrale and their circle thought little of Potter's poetic abilities. Johnson may have called Potter's poetry "verbiage", but Horace Walpole was welcoming: "There is a Mr. Potter too, I don't know who, that has published a translation of Aeschylus, and as far as I have looked is a good poet." Portraits There is a 1789 portrait of Potter by George Romney (painter) and an etching in the National Portrait Gallery, London. References External sources Potter's draft autobiography is present in the National Library of Wales, Ms 125021, Wigfair 21. Robert Potter at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) An imitation of Spenser written by Potter is available at . Retrieved 16 May 2010. Potter's is one of the translations covered in Reuben A. Brower's "Seven Agamemnons", Mirror on Mirror: Translation, Imitation, Parody (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974) . 1721 births 1804 deaths 18th-century English non-fiction writers 18th-century English male writers 18th-century English Anglican priests Anglican writers English translators People from South Somerset (district) People from Scarning People from Lowestoft 18th-century British translators